6 (ENG) Funeral of St. Odilion fresco in Armenian Cathedral in Lviv very important in and symbolical in our history. St. Odilion, who had established All Souls Day are on the stretcher, carrying by The Future (with lowered eyes), the Present (looking straight at You) and the Past (with hood). Between them with thin spirits carrying a stretcher. 6

12 (ENGLISH) ENG GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT SZOD (in english we may pronounced it SHOD ; as this title will appear on european and worldwide editions) Key words: the Second World War, magic, time, atomic bomb, mathematics, love, God, mystery, Lviv, Poland, the interwar period, history, martyrdom, psychology of relationship, philosophy, ethics, religion, surrealism, the fantastic, machine of time, split personalisty, Soren Kierkegaard, personalism, kabbalah, Judaism, the Jews, occupation, anecdotes. The project is of conceptual character and it is going to be composed of three separate parts: 1) an essayistic and psychological book, 2) a comic strip, 3) a feature film. A key thread of "Szod" is a theme of man and woman relationship, and; more precisely, its evolution its birth, stagnation, and re-birth. This theme is developed by the book entitled Prolegomena do dialektyki związków miłosnych [ Prolegomena to the Dialectics of Love Relationships ], which is now being prepared in a consistent and detailed way. This is going to be a paraphilosophical and psychological treatise; still, it is written with a great dose of irony, and with a clear and intelligible language. On the other hand - the fabule, the fictional story naturally are the subject of the Szod movie and comic book. "Szod" project has got the following aspects: 1) Entertaining one (according to the maxim that one can be redeemed and entertained at the same time. Although it is; prima facie, controversial; still, corresponding with an esoteric rule of unity of the opposites, and the author s belief that the matter of ethics and religion does not have to be gloomy, and the matter of philosophy is not necessarily difficult or dull). 2) Educational and therapeutic one (psychology of relationships, therapy of rejection, and therapy of identity, affirmation and negation of change, dullness, and stability, personality dialectics, empathy, narcissism, borderline personality disorders, egoism, and a real relation with the other (seeing "the Self" a neighbour s face). 3) Philosophical and theological, as well as, esoteric one (among others, philosophy of S. Kierkegaard, existentialism via Kantianism, ethics and metaethics, metapractice, noumenon and phenomenon, Christian personalism, Christian gnosis, micro - macro, doctrines of the East, occultism, gnosis, kabbalah and magic, eternal archetypes, psychology of the depth, Jung and alchemy). 4) Ethical and psychological (development of the character etc. etc.). 5) Humorous (e.g. ironical rather than entertaining)...indeed, I believe that there is nothing more important in the universe, between man and woman, than the shared laughter it is even more important than sex. God, an important figure in Szod, has a sense of humour too; however, this issue brings about many possible theological doubts; for instance, concerning the so-called black humour. 12

13 pattern in young (crawling) Leo s drawing room since he had started thinking about geometry and constrution of the World Scottish Café (exterior on the left photo made after the WW II; interior: photo before WW II) 13

14 SHOD SYNOPSIS (This is not standard movie synopsis, rather some kind of literar style presentation of main ideas, plots, characters and event in the history) This movie tells a story, but the story splits and stops in it. A conflict is really a longing for a conflict, change, emotion, making the most of life and living with a brave heart being faithful to identity. Lvov café, the 30s of the 20th century. A pianist plays Por Una Cabeza tango in a dignified manner. LEO, thirty-year-old scientist, mathematician, sits over a pile of small pieces of paper which are covered with formulas. He calculates Faust s formula. Six years earlier, he was wandering light-heartedly together with two of his friends: ULAM, who was also a mathematician and BOGOLUBOV, a chess player and bon vivant. They conversed till late hours, they considered the world s and human s mysteries, they picked up girls and made stupid jokes. Three years earlier, when he was head over heels in love with EWA he was also the happiest man in the world. Now everything is gone. Their relationship has become lifeless and Leo lives his dream of everlasting love. He has lost joy found before in everyday relationships with Ewa; he is conscience-stricken, he starts to live only thanks to his memories. When he meets rabbi HOROWITZ (Wandering Jew), who came to Poland from Australia, he considers him to be an eccentric and a gambler (salesman of decisiveness), since the old Jew; just for fun and taking advantage of mysterious methods, outplays city s casinos for small amounts. In the course of time, rabbi becomes Leo s mentor, he initiates him into arcane of Cabala; he inspires him to mathematically prove that time, change, and sequence are just illusions. Leo wants to stop time, create a formula for everlasting passion; he wants to join passion and conscious choice in a twinkling of an eye and forever in eternity. He wants to join rational choice with an irrational automatism (heart s voice). Since Leo is incapable of forcing himself to do anything, he wants to gain a primary state of being in love back he can live only with passion of his heart. There are heavy clouds of impending war above Europe. Leo finds the Formula; he tests it in a mysterious experiment, which disturbs space-time continuum. The line of time splits and starts to run in two, alternative versions. In one of them Leo becomes a spendthrift who constantly chases novelty and who is condemned to hop, skip, and jump to another passions; he parts with Ewa, drinks, and wanders with strumpets. In the second version, he chooses a stability of values, he marries Ewa, but the true joy of life has died in him. The war breaks out. Leo a spendthrift, engages in conspiracy, an activity of the underground; he gains desired adrenalin, unawareness of tomorrow. Leo a staid husband and father collaborates with an enemy, occupier to ensure safety to his family. 14

15 Leo s friend, Ulam, who has emigrated to USA, works in Los Alamos on atomic and thermonuclear bomb. Oppenheimer notes in his notebook: Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. Ulam writes: the fact that several signs drawn on a board can change a course of human matters is a source of incessant astonishment for me. One day Leo and Leo meet face to face, as enemies. In the heat of skirmish Leo kills his alter ego. There is the atomic mushroom exploding in the sky.the character of Leo merges into one again, he wakes up in Zona. Time transition. Chernobyl. Prypiat an abandoned city, from which the citizens escaped after the nuclear power plant s breakdown within 5 minutes, leaving books and newspapers on pages which they opened in a moment of the alarm; the frozen emptiness of city. Rabbi Horowitz warned Leo one day: Shod (which means devastation) is created when in the name of God Shaddai (which means omnipotent) one single letter, a point is missing. Reconciling eternity with the twinkling of an eye. When time stops, the idea lasts forever. After all, a movement, a change is life. Stillness, stability means death. Leo must close a circle of time that he has interrupted; he must join both ends, then he gets back both himself and Ewa. And he saves the world. 15

18 THE ASSESSMENT OF THE FILM PROJECT (according to the Polish Film Institute s (PISF) criterion) The Szod project focuses on touching, using the language of film, the matters that do not pass, but make the centre of the reflection on a human being: human consciousness and self-consciousness, possibility of real cognition and relation with another person, the essence of human choices, the nature of higher feelings (love), the essence and source of the evil. The following remarks are based on a scheme of the film project s assessment used by the Polish Film Institute. 1. Artistic, cognitive and ethical values. a) artistic values: In the past, the art had to face high requirements it was to amuse people and nations. This target is not a fancy. A film, through a skillful operating with a symbol and a metaphor, references to known and lesser known events, historical background, and using a narrative line with huge capacity and endurance of transmission, can tell about basic issues in a not airtight way. This point can be developed in a multipage essay. b) cognitive values: Although the Szod project is a fictional project, it has got rich realistic, historical, anthropological, religious and meta-art references: - realistic and historical references (for instance: war, the Soviet and German occupation of Lviv in , silhouettes of the representatives of the world famous Lviv school of mathematics, the attitudes of its civil population during the war, a fascinating story of Lviv s feeders of lice of professor Weigl, the wings of the project of building a nuclear bomb in Los Alamos, the Chernobyl disaster), - anthropological references (a psychological construction of characters, man s philosophy presented in the film, series of archeological and cultural threads), - religious references (spiritual coexistence of several religions in pre-war and war Lviv, religious attitudes of the characters, symbolism of the film), - meta-art references (reflection on art itself, reflections of known and lesser known masterpieces). c) ethical values: The ethical issues are the essence of the project. The history told in the film is based on the concept possessing profound philosophical relations, mainly ethical. It is connected to the concept of human freedom by Soren Kierkegaard, and also the subsequent existential thought, the Christian philosophy, doctrine, but also its gnosis, personalism, the philosophy of dialogue (Martin Buber, Józef Tischner), Judaism, Chasidism, Kaballah or some esoteric schools. 18

19 2. The meaning for the national culture and strengthening Polish tradition and language. The meaning of the project for Polish national culture is invaluable. The historical background in the film presents pre-war Polish Lviv, mainly the environment of young intelligentsia. The supporting cast were famous Polish academics and artists: Stefan Banach, Stanisław Ulam (mathematicians), Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Leon Chwistek and others. The basic background of the film is a life of multicultural pre-war Poland, the national attitudes are revealed in the city where cultures and religions of the East and West meet. The world presented does not exist however, to some extent, it does shape Polish national awareness, partly held in memory of the still living generation, and greatly deemed to be forgotten by younger Poles. The other aspect is the issue of war: an attempt to touch, in an original way, the Soviet and German occupation, e.g. to recall the Nazi atrocity against the professors of Lviv, unusual history of the feeders of lice, etc. 3. The enrichment of the European cultural diversity. The background and events presented in the film are often forgotten or omitted in Europe and across the world (before the war, the academics and; especially, the mathematicians of Lviv, were worldwide famous). Social, national and cultural diversity of pre-war Poland and an original demonstration of the war thread should be widely reminded and highlighted without an inordinate national martyrdom, Polish messianism and fatalism that are known in Europe. 4. Planning and financial conditions of the project. Prima facie, the budget of the project may seem to be planned as quite considerable (historical background, war, time jumps, photos taken abroad, etc.). However, this is not the case for several reasons. The story, although not deprived of a sensational thread, is generally symbolical and intimate in its character. A man microcosmos and the world macrocosmos, are said through a multiple intertwining threads, metaphor, and the spirit of the film. Locations in Lviv and Ukraine are not the most expensive. Because of the fictional character of the story and taking into account its characters who are to look very genuinely, there is no need to buy a license to have remembrances, or other works (e.g. memoires of Stranisław Ulam Adventures of a mathematician ). The project is completely original and the references included do not cross the borders of loose inspiration. 19

20 PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH THE PROJECT Author: Mateusz Droba Born in August 1977 in Cracow. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of UMCS in Lublin, Branch in Rzeszów. A university lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Rzeszów (Chair of Marketing Science), and then at the Faculty of Law and Administration at UR. Author of Polish nationwide legal coursebook Basics of Law, the first graphic coursebook from the innovative series. Creator of the publishing series Beck s Boards in the legal - economic publishing house C.H. Beck. Author of a dozen or so scientific articles in the field of administrative and civil law, the theory and philosophy of law, and ethics. Essayist in Polish nationwide legal press, a continuous cooperator of the monthly Legal Education. Since 2002, an independent filmmaker. Author of short and medium-length feature films, documentary films and experimental films prized in Poland and abroad. Director, scriptwriter, dramatist (the multimedia play: Cut s Last (but one) Séance related to a monodrama by S. Beckett has received a positive notice of the permanent graduate assistant in the Drama Laboratory of Tadeusz Słobodzianek), cinematographer, film editor, set decorator and prose writer (a psychological-essayistic book about contemporary relationships between men and women in connection to the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard is being prepared). Currently, he is developing the script of the Szod project, a sensational, amorous and apocalyptic history of interwar Faust a mathematician from Lviv. He is the commissioner of the owners of the copyrights and co-producer of the adaptation of the cult Polish comic strip Funky Koval. Graphic author: Dariusz Rygiel (university plastic arts graduate) Selected Project Szod friends and sympathizers: - Bogusław Polch one of the most famous european comic book graphic artist, author f.e. of Funky Koval, Expedition (based on E. Von Daeniken s theories), The Witcher series and many more. - Professor Arkadiusz Jadczyk, PhD (quantum physics, multidimensional and mathemathical physics), Humboldt Prize Winner, writer of scientifical bestsellers, esoterism thinker, project scientific consultant - Professor Aleksy Schubert, PhD (mathematics, informatics specialist, cultural activist, f.e. poewiki site project). - Ben Hopkins (acclaimed screenwriter and movie director ( Simon Magus, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz, UK). - Katarzyna Terakowska-Nowak acknowledged writer, journalist. - Krzysztof Willmann Lviv and polish ukrainian dialogue cultural activist, advisor in Agniszka Holland Academy Award nominated movie In darkness - Krzysztof Droba acclaimed polish musicologist, vive president and member of the board of Polish Composers Society, organizer of the ackowledged Warsaw Autumn, project musicology consultant, polish lithuanian cultural cooperation dialogue activist. More our friends and list of our movie branch friends will be revealed soon 20

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